Grunhilda follows the two men and the Elf about the Keep, becoming ever more impatient with the useless haggling with babbling fools. She smells the greed on Jem and John, and she almost offers them a "double share of the spoils", but she is wise enough to know her tone would immediately betray her plan for these two to never make it back alive.
She returns to Sir Halter's tent, spits into her hands to wash her face and brush back her hair. After a moment to compose herself, she barges past any guards and gruffly barks to all in the room:
"Halter Man Knight, your townsfolk will be useless when the goblins come here. You say goblins gather two days hence. You say goblins took your temple of Stalf the Man Godling. I tell you goblin magic steals power from that temple. They will not lay siege here. They will slaughter."
Before he can respond, she pounds his desk and says "I need meat and mead. The men need bread, but the Elf can eat flowers. Provision us and we leave at dawn before the goblins come to you."
Grunhilda crosses her arms, curses the goblins with foul Dwarven oaths, and waits for his answer.